The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-01
GatheriDr 6UDgoIVers

Among the varied pursuits of life,
whether it be amid the rush and excite
ment of commercial activity, the
thoughtful and studious ways of profess
siOns, the ring of the hammers, buzz
or saws, and lightning whirl of machi-
merry in shop or on the rail, or the labors
of the farm and stock ranch, nothing
can offer to each and all who mingle
therein, greater general facilities for
relaxation and rest profit and pleasure,
than that offered the masses through
the annual gathering at state fair.
AS a school of industry, it invites the
attention of all to the object lessons it
teaches, which are not only entertain
ing but instructive to every worker and
student of nature as an exposition, or
representative medium, by which the
product of the soil and field, the genius
and workmanship of man, it presents
an open field of competition, where
comparisons may be made, improve
ments in manufacture, increase in
yield OF product, or betterment in form
and character, can be studied adVan-
tageously by producers and consumers
alike and form the knowledge thus
gained, future channels of profit and
pleasure may develop, to enrich the
world or enlighten mankind.
AS social factor, it brings together
all classes, under the most favorable
circumstances, for friendly interchange
OF ideas and experiences, springing from
the different spheres of labor, and it
ever presents the favored opportunity
of each receding year, fer the annual
renewal of friendships greetings thus
strengthening the circle of social life.
Possessing then as it does, so many
features of Importance to the people
and state at large, it is not surprising
that the Kansas State Fair association,
seeks to make its annual exposition
one of the permanent institutions of
the state. And that the same may be
in accord with the growth and progress
of Kansas, the association at this time,
Is expending upwards of SIS, 600 for
additional buildings and improvement
of the grounds, for the comfort and
convenience of exhibitors and patrons
Resting in the faith that neither
drouth nor chinch bugs car scar the
responsive natures of Kansans, or de-
strOy their pride and hope of state, or
its institutions, the association has
spared no expense or effort to make the
forthcoming fair attractive and enter
tanning in every feature, and it lies
within the power of the people of Kan
sas to make the fair of this year not
only its most successful one, but the
greatest fair of all the western states.
their attendance and exhibits.
And if among them all, there be one
Kansas farmer more unfortunate than
through loss of crops, and
burdened by disbursement who
feels 10th to join his neighbors as an
or visitor to the fair, to him
let it be said: Gather a sunflower for
a button hole bouquet and join the
throng en- route to Topeka to attend
ha Entv In 81 10 ,Eg
10th to oath and when there, the golden
will deck the wreath of sue
cess which shall crown the Kansas
fair of 1897, the fair, of fairs, and the
wearer of the button hole bouquet
gathering inspiration and encourage
ment from the vision of beautiful
products there seen, will be stimulated
to again turn the land, from which
shall spring harvests of golden grain,
TO shade the reaper as he smiles on the
sunflower by the road side. I"
Topeka Daily Capital. 4